Everything posted by Vegas64
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The Texpatriates Thread
Anybody ever leave Texas for Florida? Seems like a "Texpatriate-lite" move, but at least you get real beaches (and more hurricanes, I guess too).
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Tensions between the natives and Indians in Prosper?
French! But also TWITCH-esque. I once had a partner get positively offended when I characterized Cognizant (an obvious Indian heritage firm) as an Indian heritage firm with a "Sir, what do you MEAN? Our HQ is in Teaneck, New Jersey! We are as an American as Apple Pie"
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Tensions between the natives and Indians in Prosper?
- Tensions between the natives and Indians in Prosper?
So 3 of the TWITCH? 90% of the Indians in my neighborhood are TWITCH.- Deion Sanders "Coach Prime" Now At Colorado
- Ztejas and Jimmy debate weezer
I actually didn't know that much about Weezer before starting this thread-- just the blue album from an eternity ago. Their Tiny Desk I just saw the other day was awesome. I did just recently learn that apparently the song on Pinkerton (and played below) "Across the Sea" almost or temporarily got him a ton of backlash for being a creep. The song is gas tho.- Caitlin Clark …. Seriously
Someone should tell him that if people "go back to not caring about the WNBA devoid of Caitlin Clark" the WNBA would take about 10 steps backwards and lose all the gains.- Ztejas and Jimmy debate weezer
Foo fighters suck and killers are cool but I want to hear you two debate weezer @ztejas@jimmyjazz- Foo Fighters or The Killers?
Killers by a long shot. I don’t really like Foo Fighters.- ChatGPT AI Tool— We all work for robots now
Spoilering this, it's long, but insightful: https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/ai-energy-demand- ChatGPT AI Tool— We all work for robots now
I remember reading this is actually grossly misreported and misattributed. I'll find the write up and copy pasta it here from some climate journal I read it in a few months ago. Ironically I'll need to use an AI like perplexity to find the source, probably.- Snow White (2025)
Please take your medicines.- Snow White (2025)
Well they also complained that the asian person cast wasn't asian enough. So people will gripe about anything.- I want to embrace my country again
but, but, but the rich men north of richmond!- I want to embrace my country again
Maybe my all-time favorite gif.- Snow White (2025)
Haven't seen it but what press I did read about it was from a bunch of upset progressives about how it's normalizing indigenous people to give up their kids to the state or something weird like that.- The destruction of America's public education system
My wife would do $100 worth stuff for the parents at Christmas time and another $100 for end of the year (Teacher week or whatever they would call it) every year back in the day. Can confirm that teachers appreciated it and for the siblings coming up through the pipeline behind them it helped turn those 88's and 89's into 90's on the ole transcript Maybe it's placebo in my mind, but teachers are humans and in a jump ball they probably bias for the kids/families they like, was always my guess.- Trump’s America
Nice humblebrag, Dr. Casanova.- Texas -- a failed state
Jewish, too, right? 10 commandments is OG Torah iirc....- Caitlin Clark …. Seriously
It makes sense if you think about it from the auspices of the WNBA writ large: Caitlin Clark is a single point of failure in the sense that Caitlin Clark has, by almost every analysis and estimation conducted, single-handedly grown the WNBA. In whatever metric you want to look at (e.g. eyeballs, ad spend, revenue, attendance, viewership, sponsorships, household name/normalization, non-fringe zeitgeist). She is akin to the celebrity CEO of a company who, if he/she gets hit buy a bus, the stock would tank 40% overnight. So the WNBA needs to diversify and hedge against the single point of failure (aka Caitlin Clark being catastrophically injured, leaving for a Saudi basketball team, or getting caught doing something morally egregious at a massage parlor) even if these things are wildly far-feteched and unlikely. You use the good times to plan for the worst case scenario and start putting contingency strategies into place for when/if they are needed. 100% the ex-Deloitte partner who runs the WNBA gets this and is thinking about this strategically. The problem is that it takes time to build off the Caitlin Clark catalyst to create an ecosystem of mini-Caitlin Clarks (and eventually, the "next" Caitlin Clark). The existing "legacy" WNBA'ers are bemoaning that they are chopped liver (except for the aforementioned exceptions over the last couple of pages and which @SarkAfterDark name checked previously) and instead of taking the hard swallow of (mostly) reality, are over-indexing on having a grudge on the white girl taking the women's basketball world by storm. And, to be fair, there is probably SOME truth to the idea that being mostly black and queer was not doing them any favors when trying to be the Patrick Mahomes of WNBA (complete with State Farm ads every 7 minutes) versus the straight white girl. This is America, after all (cue Donald Glover meme)....- Deion Sanders "Coach Prime" Now At Colorado
Yea for sure. But like others have said, his story is far from being over (for good and for bad).- Deion Sanders "Coach Prime" Now At Colorado
I guess he has engaged in some antics that do indicate that. But he's also responded to some things with some humility and good humor and cheer, which is usually a green flag for someone who has a healthy sense of self, identity, and emotional maturity. A couple of examples-- his response to being pranked on what is maybe the biggest day of his life in a myriad of emotions as things arent going well. He seemed to be able to empathisize with a dumb kid and not villianize: Speaking of having maybe your lowest and most embarrassing moment in life the subject of a high profile organization and headline news story for all to jeer, he seemed to show some humility and good humor: Maybe the funniest was his self-awareness and laughing at himself with the "are you going to buy your number like Cam Ward did?" questions: Talking about a 4th round rookie deal pf $4mm vs Cam Ward's $48.7mm deal.- Texas may have accidentally legalized marijuana
NO DM's YET!- Texas may have accidentally legalized marijuana
Can you DM me a mail order service perchance? I keep hearing about this mail order thing.- Texas may have accidentally legalized marijuana
Serious question though, how can anyone our age smoke a whole joint and not be completely shot for the rest of the day? One solid drag and I'm good for many hours. Weed is too strong these days. And what's up with the stupid electronic vapes? What happened to zigzags? Get off my lawn. - Tensions between the natives and Indians in Prosper?
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